Originally Posted by cookmo

I dont think I would call it terrorism. To me the word terrorist implies some fundamentalist religious convictions. I think the Indians were just doing what any person would do if their family, land, and religion/ heritage were bieng threatend by another foriegn peoples genocidal intent to take whats yours.I dont see how in any strectch of the imagination what went down could be misconstrued as terrorism. However if you want to refer to the inner tribal relationships and the war tactics between warring tribal parties, those could be considered acts of terrorism.